1177 B.C.: When Civilization Collapsed. The Unknown Cause of the Collapse of Great Civilizations

1177 B.C.: When Civilization Collapsed. The Unknown Cause of the Collapse of Great Civilizations Eric Cline
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Many of the Greatest Cities and Entire Civilizations just Simply Disappeared
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DROUGHT - FAMINE - WAR - CALAMITIES
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Consider this, optimists. All the societies in the world can collapse simultaneously. It has happened before.
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In the 12th century BCE the great Bronze Age civilizations of the Mediterranean—all of them—suddenly fell apart. Their empires evaporated, their cities emptied out, their technologies disappeared, and famine ruled.
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Mycenae, Minos, Assyria, Hittites, Canaan, Cyprus—all gone. Even Egypt fell into a steep decline.
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The Bronze Age was over.
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The event should live in history as one of the great cautionary tales, but it hasn’t because its causes were considered a mystery.
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How can we know what to be cautious of?
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Eric Cline has taken on on the mystery. An archaeologist-historian at George Washington University, he is the author of "1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed." The failure, he suggests, was systemic.
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The highly complex, richly interconnected system of the world tipped all at once into chaos. "1177 B.C.: When Civilization Collapsed" was given on January 11, 02016 as part of Long Now's Seminar series. The series was started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking from some of the world's leading thinkers. The Seminars take place in San Francisco and are curated and hosted by Stewart Brand. To follow the talks, you can
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